For some reason, GY!BE were a band I (largely) missed over.
When I was first getting into post-rock, they seemed a bit daunting compared to Mogwai, EitS. Then after that, my interest in post-rock shifted way more towards stuff like Bark Psychosis, Talk Talk, Labradford, etc.
GY!BE are pretty interesting as a mid-point between post-rock as a defined genre and post-rock as a stranger, harder to define thing – they definitely have the “cinematic” thing that became the calling card for post-rock (they do it rlly well too - my beef with a lot of later bands was that it felt like they’d settle a bit too easily into sounding big and sweeping), but they’ve also got those little idiosyncratic ambient interludes, the found sound and field recording stuff that I really dig too.
